“The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.”— Dieter Rams, gooddesign.io
“Graphic design is an excellent preparation for any profession because it teaches you that for any one problem, there are infinite potential solutions.”— Biz Stone, amazon.com
“Sometimes when I project forward to a hundred years from now I imagine an art historian trying to talk about our times and I think that they will look back more at changes in design than at developments in art.”— Andrea Zittel, zittel.org
“Nothing is original, esp. in #design. (btw, these are NOT the logos of Medium AirBNB, Flipboard, and Beats)”— Spencer Chan, twitter.com
“Some designers aren’t allowed to talk to customers. Some designers don’t sit side-by-side with engineers and product managers.”— Jack Hallahan, medium.com
“The only other people I know who call their customers users are drug dealers.”— Jesse Weaver, medium.com
“Atomic design isn’t about designing a single instance or page, it’s about designing with the big picture in mind — it’s about designing the core of the system.”— Joe Toscano, medium.com
“The modernist International Style championed by the Bauhaus taught that design should be simple, yet have an expressive spirit.”— Walter Isaacson, amazon.com